Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone


If you’ve watched the film before reading this book, prepare to be amazed as there’s an actual plotline rather than an overpaid director filming scenes from a script. If you done it vice versa; prepare to be disappointed. Harry’s childlike innocence is portrayed perfectly as we are introduced to the world of Hogwarts and its characters. The classroom banter is fantastic and the narrative eases us gently into the wizarding world; helping the reader to discover Hogwarts without overloading us with facts and historical accounts of the world before. We learn at the same rate as Harry as he attends his first classes; though whether you can remember the rules of Quidditch is a different matter entirely. It’s a fantastic first adventure and no detail is left unturned, of which Warner Brothers ignored to their cost as the franchise continued. It’s a tale that you will want to read again and again.    

No comments:

Post a Comment